Kidnapping - A truly Nigerian phenomenom as Yoruba youths join the party

auntie funmi,  i had  thanksgiving too early for you didnt i?  this your lesser hajj seems to be waning quick now.  anyway someone else is reporting this on nairaland. what do you think?  evil and wickedness has no tribal marks otherwise you will say  ibos do all the political violence you see in yaruba land.  you may want to watch this clip. if you are too busy  just move  to 4.30 minutes and see how nigerians never seems to learn any lessons   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs



cruel joke this is bt fully

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@ bolded: I agree.  Its not normal for a Yoruba town. Its not like there's political unrest or stuff of that nature.

and I repeat- there's something weird about the whole thing.

They should reveal the names of the kidnappers, so people can know who they are.

I hope they've been arrested by the police?

why are you so afraid of knowing the identities of the kidnappers?

and you are lying through your teeth here. Nigerians consider names very important. People's origins can be traced through their names, and even if someone changes their name to reflect their current residence, they can still be traced through their grandparents or actual family names.

You must be out of touch with Nigera, like so many others who spout nonsense everywhere on this site.

Who is talking of passport? Are the kidnappers travelling overseas?

The Oba of Owo has intervened in this case (thats more than can be said for some other parts of Nigeria). He and other Owo indigenes will be able to tell who exactly these kidnappers are, once they're located and brought to book.

However, don't let me stop you from throwing your pity party and feeling sorry for yourself.

please go back and reread the post which is getting you all hot under the collar.

Just answer the question now, how would they determine the name of the kidnappers, please, i am waiting.

I don't see why I should double post on account of your ability to jump to conclusions.

So if you can't go back and reread in order to catch what you missed before, too bad.

Honey this particular thread is about some Yoruba youths specifically targetting Igbo traders in a town called Owo in Ondo state.
That is the scope of this discussion.
Pointing fingers at crimes all over the world is not the issue.

You tell us this is not normal in Yoruba towns.
where is it normal?
Is MEND as old as Nigeria?
Is kidnapping a normal act?
didn't they crop up one day upon us?
what do you call normal ?
Is a Chief justice of a nation slaughtered like nama in his own house normal ?
How about a taxi load of passengers disappearing and body parts found in a river,is that normal?
How about a man impregnating a mad woman because the babalawo/witch doctor says it's his prescription for wealth
Is that  regarded a normal act in any part of Nigeria or an ill that has befallen us.
We have to be careful.
These blatant denials and finger pointing is not helping anyone
and to do it when the evidence stares you in the face is quite absurd

Not just Nigeria, but the yorubas to be specific. As if kidnapping doesn't take place in igboland
and elsewhere.

It's one thing to denounce a crime and another thing to denounce a whole tribe. The thread starter
(ibmie or whatever he calls himself) should have concentrated on the crime committed
as opposed to the tribe. But that's bigotry for you.

talk like this is what fuels bigots like Quotasystem, Oziomatv and their minions.

Pray, what's the big deal about marrying or dating someone outside your tribe? That you must pray and fast as if its unheard of?

Marrying an Igbo lady isnt anything unusual- Yorubas have been marrying Igbos and other Nigerian tribes since time immemorial.

Many of my friends when I was growing up in Nigeria, were from mixed backgrounds like me. Others were  "assimilated" Yorubas who spoke even better Yoruba than myself. Many of these people also grew up and dated Yorubas,  I don't see why people make intertribal relationships sound like such a big deal.

Oyibo sef- naijas don dey marry them since antiquity.

abeg o- I just wan talk before the the two buttheads and their minions read your post then come online to yarn rubbish.

@rhino

Hell no

It means don't let anger, strife or misunderstanding stop you from giving credit & commendation where it is due. A sentiment I support wholeheartedly.

Really? Why not  set your example with other tribes apart from the yoruba? 

@Bold, you remember when we discussed Nigeria and illiteracy, you went to the pits of hell to get archival documents that shows that ibos are more educated than Yorubas instead of FOCUSING on the problem at hand.

And what has owo kidnappers got to do with being good neighbours and good leaders. ?
You folks are the first ones to point fingers at other tribes yet you're as tribalistic as can be
Any Igbo man that has lived amongst Yorubas will tell you that an Igbo man would be better treated by a Hausa man than an average Yoruba man who would describe him as a man that eats a stone without drinking water.
It's only a tribalistic folk that'll call anyone other than himself "omo ibo" with such disdain without bothering to learn  that there are 249 other ethnicities other than Igbos.
abeg let's hear something else.
Is it all of you that are that ignorant, certainly not

so what gives you the right to label all Igbos with a homogenous label?
You have your bad eggs,we have ours
and for every ill you accuse the Igbo man of, there's a Yoruba man doing the exact same thingDon't come here recycling the same things passed down from your folk tales.
It's getting rather old and stale.

The way 99% of you folks have said everything but admit that Yorubas can be kidnappers is quite laughable?
I hope that works.
deny it or excuse the kidnappers,worse still blame it on the kidnapped.
na wa for una

It hasn't gotten to this. My anger with the thread was the title as if every crime committed in yorubaland was committed by Yorubas.

Ibos have a right to defend themselves, hausas, Yorubas , Ijaws etc also have the same rights. If you know me very well, i am not a believer in covering an evil done by my people just for the sake of  tribalsm because it solves nothing and it's even better if you are criticised constructively so that you can improve.

forget those that tell you that yorubas are not known for kidnappings because it happens during festivals in yorubaland, ibos also kidnap even though i'm not drawing my conclusion from what Texcee posted because if the kidnappings in imo and abia were done by the ibos, that means the one in Owo must be done by the yorubas. I do not share that kind of thinking at all. The killings at Okija shrine were products of kidnappings so do the killings in hausa shrines, yoruba shrines etc. As a matter of fact, the Oro festival in Ondo state is a season for incessant kidnappings although it's not a ransom style kidnapping, theirs is a kidnap and beahead which is even  worse. The Oba of Benin has been reported to be responsible for so many kidnappings in Edo state and so on. You can see that am not denying any of that but why should Ibime open a thread pointing fingers at us just because it happened in Owo?

This is news to me. Hausa never complain, na you dey complain. . . . stop being defensive, OK?


It doesn't matter who you think committed the crime, whether Yoruba or Igbo. . . . it only highlights my point that kidnapping is becoming a nationwide phenomenom.

And do not use MEND's name in vain. There is a difference between political hostage taking and kidnapping for profit.